| Director: | Todd Phillips |
|---|---|
| Production: | Joint Effort (Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger) |
| Running Time: | 118’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Main Cast: | Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro |
| Screenplay: | Todd Phillips, Scott Silver |
| Cinematographer: | Lawrence Sher |
| Editor: | Jeff Groth |
| Production Designer: | Mark Friedberg |
| Costume Designer: | Mark Bridges |
| Music: | Hildur Guðnadóttir |
| Sound: | Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich |
| Visual Effects: | Doug Facciponti, Jeff Brink |
| Notes: | 18+ |
Cinema
Joker
Venezia 76 Competition
Synopsis
Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night... but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Director’s Statement
I was always intrigued by the complexity of Joker and felt his origin would be worth exploring since nobody had really attempted that before. In fact, part of his lore was that he didn’t have a definitive origin, so Scott Silver and I sat down to write a version of how he may have come to be. We included certain elements from the canon and set it in a broken-down Gotham City sometime in the late 1970s-early 1980s, partly because that harkens back to an era of some of the great character studies in film that I’ve always loved. We wrote it with Joaquin Phoenix in mind, because he’s always so transformative in his work and he never goes half-way. Our hope was to create a character that you really feel for, even root for, up until the point that you just can’t anymore.
Producers/Distributors
PRODUCTION: Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, - Joint Effort
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